Local families, farms, and livestock rely on the river as a water source.

One local resident told The Project the tap water in their home smelled of sulfur and they had been forced to completely live off rainwater. Now even that is getting very low.

"This is like a third world country. The basic right to clean water and we don't have it," the local resident said.

Mrs McBride also told The Project that you can't drink the water from the river and boiling will not fix the issue.

"Blue Green Algie has been linked to motorneurone disease, within the past within the past few years we've had three cases. Now with a township of 500 people, that's just disproportionate," Mrs McBride said.

Mrs McBride said that she believes there are two main issues right now.

"The Darling River is just below the Lake Menindee's, in 2016, they were full which should have meant at least seven years of water supply but only two years down the track they're pretty much empty," she said.

"Secondly, two manly water licenses are being handed out further up the catchment which isn't' allowing those flows that should be coming down to replenish the Menindee Lakes.

"The water that we've always had, that's always been there, has all of a sudden disappeared."